BACKGROUND Dengue fever (DF) outbreaks often arise from imported DF cases in Cairns, Australia. Few studies have incorporated imported DF cases in the estimation of the relationship between weather variability and incidence of autochthonous DF. The study aimed to examine the impact of weather variability on autochthonous DF infection after accounting for imported DF cases and then to explore th...

Stylasterid corals comprise about 250 species, making them the second largest group of calcified cnidarians, only the Scleractinia having more species (i.e. 1500; Cairns, 1999; Cairns et al., 1999). They are distributed worldwide in both deep and shallow-water marine environments, but most species occur in water depths of 200-500m (Cairns, 1984, 1992). Among the tropical shallow-water species, ...

The so-called ovoo-cairns of Mongolia display a variety and pervasiveness that stimulated rich anthropological analysis. However, their ancient history remains challenging scarcely frequented research topic. This paper introduces an archaeological focus combined with linguistic, historical, considerations to provide alternative approach the genealogy ovoos. Their multi-dimensional nature persis...

Outbreaks of dengue occur in Queensland, Australia nearly every summer. In 2008-2009, there was an unusually large, protracted outbreak of dengue, comprised of 1,200 cases. We investigated the weather variables and their contribution to the 2008-2009 dengue outbreak in Queensland. Case data were obtained from the Communicable Disease Branch of Queensland Health for 2000-2010 for the towns of Ca...

Dichotomous and tabular keys to the 23 genera, 2 subgenera, and 5 species groups of the Stylasteridae are presented. The keys stress easily recognized external skeletal characters, most of which can be seen using a dissecting microscope, such as: coordination of dactylopores and gastropores, presence or absence of gastroand dactylostyles, cyclosystem orientation, dactylopore spine shape, ampuUa...